古今譯經圖紀 3.36

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沙門釋智嚴涼州人。弱冠出家精勤為業。納衣宴坐蔬食永歲。不受別請分衛自資。晉義熙十三年宋武伐姚泓還。始興公王恢。從駕觀山見嚴禪思。即請還都。然嚴道化所被幽顯咸伏。先於西域得經梵本未譯。以宋文帝元嘉四年歲次丁卯。於楊都枳園寺共寶雲等譯。普曜經（八卷）。無盡意菩薩經（六卷）。生經（五卷）。廣博嚴淨不退轉輪經（四卷）。菩薩瓔珞本業經（二卷）。毘羅三昧經（二卷）。阿那含經（二卷）。四天王經（一卷）。善德婆羅門問提婆達多經（一卷）。一音顯正法經（一卷）。調伏眾生業經（一卷）。善德優婆塞經（一卷）。法華三昧經（一卷）。淨度三昧經（一卷）總一十四部合三十六卷。然嚴未出家前。曾受五戒有所虧犯。後受大戒疑不得戒。遂汎海至印度國。諮問羅漢比丘。時羅漢不決為詣彌勒。彌勒答云。得戒嚴甚喜焉。

The śramaṇa Shi Zhiyan was a native of Liangzhou. He underwent pravrajyā when he came of age, taking diligent practice as his life's pursuit. Wearing patched garments, he sat in peaceful contemplation and subsisted on a vegetarian diet year after year. He never accepted private invitations, sustaining himself solely by almsround. In the thirteenth year of the Yixi era of the Jin, when Emperor Wu of the Song returned from subduing Yao Hong, Wang Hui, Duke of Shixing, accompanied the imperial entourage to view the mountains and saw Zhiyan in meditative contemplation; he immediately invited him to return to the capital. Indeed, the reach of Zhiyan's spiritual transformation made both the unseen and visible realms submit. Earlier, he had obtained Sanskrit texts of scriptures in the Western Regions that were not yet translated. In the fourth year of the Yuanjia era of Emperor Wen of the Song, the year dingmao, he translated together with Baoyun and others at Zhiyuan Monastery in the capital Yangdu: the Lalitavistara Sūtra (eight fascicles), the Akṣayamati Bodhisattva Sūtra (six fascicles), the Jātaka Sūtra (five fascicles), the Vipulavyūhaviśuddhāvaivartikacakra Sūtra (four fascicles), the Bodhisattvabhūmi Mūlakarma Sūtra (two fascicles), the Vira Samādhi Sūtra (two fascicles), the Anāgāmin Sūtra (two fascicles), the Four Heavenly Kings Sūtra (one fascicle), the Sūtra of the Brāhmaṇa *Bhadratejas Inquiring of Devadatta (one fascicle), the Sūtra of Revealing the Correct Dharma through One Sound (one fascicle), the Sūtra on the Karma of Taming Sentient Beings (one fascicle), the *Bhadratejas Upāsaka Sūtra (one fascicle), the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Samādhi Sūtra (one fascicle), and the Sūtra of the Samādhi of Pure Deliverance (one fascicle)—fourteen works in total, thirty-six fascicles altogether. Before Zhiyan entered monastic life, however, he had received the five precepts and committed some transgression; after later receiving the full ordination, he doubted whether he had truly obtained the precepts. He thereupon sailed across the sea to India to consult an arhat monk. The arhat could not resolve it at the time, so he went on his behalf to Maitreya. Maitreya replied, "He has obtained the precepts," and Zhiyan was overjoyed.